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William Burroughs Burroughs is known for his experimental style. The setting of his novels are usually nightmarish, and occasionally wildly humorous. They are also marked by explicit mention of drugs and sex. Cover of Burrough’s Naked Lunch, which was also made into a film in 1991. William Burroughs Burroughs was himself a drug addict, notably heroin. His drug experiences fueled his writing, and after he got sober, he wrote Junkie, a bizarre and hallucinatory work. Book Cover for Junkie William Burroughs Though openly homosexual, Burroughs married a woman and moved with her to Mexico, a favorite Beat destination. While performing a William Tell gag in 1951, Burroughs accidentally shot his wife in the head, and that injury would prove fatal. ?Burroughs being questioned for the murder of his wife. William Burroughs Later in life Burroughs wandered through the Amazon in South America, experimenting with newer and stranger drugs. This time inspired The Yage Letters. He maintained a correspondence with Ginsberg, which has been recently published. Cover of The Yage Letters? ?Burroughs in the Amazon William Burroughs William Burroughs died in 1997, leaving a legacy of experimental but highly influential and important prose. ?David Bowie andWilliam Burroughs Beat Generation Lost Generation Time In the 1950s In the 1920s Back Ground Post WWⅠ Post WWⅡ Origin Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation in 1948 Gertrude Stein. pointed to Hemingway. Forms of rebellion The lost generation didn’t care about anything. But they were not negative .Under the loss apperance, they were looking for something and pursuit of personal freedom. Beat Generation was crazy and abnormal, They discarded material, fame , contempted for the countrys policy and hated the police. In the eyes of ordinary people, they were degenerate and hopeless people.But their crazy actions expressed the protest against the mainstream culture and the the pursuit of freedom. “Lost Generation and Beat Genera